14 January 2013

Moon day — le jour de la lune

I'm not sure that I knew that Monday meant "the day of the moon." It's obviously the same thing in French: lundi, ou « le jour de la lune ».

If there's a moon these days, we wouldn't know it. Skies are gray, gray, gray. The news readers say a lot of people are experiencing symptoms attributable to a vitamin D deficiency, including douleurs musculaires and fatigue. And here I was thinking it was just old age...

They also say we might get a few snowflakes today or tomorrow. Paris and areas north of there are supposed to get some actual snow. The temperature here in Saint-Aignan is below freezing this morning, for the first time in a long time.

There was a big demonstration in Paris yesterday organized by people who are opponents of what is being called « le mariage pour tous », or "marriage equality." According to the news, it wasn't big enough to change the Hollande government's plan to introduce the bill in parliament this year. They have the votes to pass it. If there had been a million demonstrators in the streets yesterday, it could have been a turning point. It was half a million. That's what they are saying.

Stay warm and up your vitamin D intake.Loved the last photo...would make a great big print for a living area like mine.Folks demonstrate about everything under the sun, it's just something they do. I couldn't imagine myself out in the cold demonstrating for a cause that does not affect me though.

Hey, we had a ray of sunshine around lunch time (Paris area)! There was heavy frost on the cars this morning.. It's gotten cloudy again and they say it'll snow later. I'm glad I don't have to commute any more because I have horrible memories of snow starting just before leaving for home and it would take forever to get there.The big to-do about mariage pour tous hinges on parental rights, adoption, and medically assisted conception and those touchy subjects are not in the bill. I'm pretty sure once the law gets passed, the resistance to it will drop dramatically, much as it did when the PACS was first passed. As it is, according to opinion polls, the majority of the French have no objection.